Eugène Manet

Eugéne served in the French Army, and then studied law, but did not follow his father into a legal career.

He travelled to Italy with Édouard in 1853 to study Old Master paintings in Florence, Venice, and Rome.

Anne Higonnet writes: The pride [Berthe Morisot] takes in her child's Manet parentage was a theme that would recur many times.

Eugène may also be The Ragpicker — one of his brother's three paintings of Philosophers from c. 1865-1870[4] and was depicted with Édouard's wife Suzanne in On the Beach (1873).

[5] Eugène Manet suffered from ill health from 1891 and died in Paris the following year.